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▪ I. ˈpencilling, -iling, vbl. n.
[See -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. pencil in various senses; esp. fine colouring or drawing; also transf. the fine tinting or marking of natural objects resembling that executed by a pencil; natural marking on animals.
1706Art of Painting (1744) 389 A harsh way of penciling. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty xii. 96 Whether they are..made by the pencilings of art or nature. 1831N. P. Willis Poem at Brown University 178 Beneath The spreading trees, fine pencillings of light Stay. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. 54 Delicate pencilling replaced strong horizontal lines. 1878Lawrence tr. Cotta's Rocks 83 The linear foldings or pencilling of frequent occurrence in gneiss. 1909W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity ii. 42 Pencilling [in fowls] is a dominant to its absence. 1936C. L. Morgan Sparkenbroke vi. vii. 551 He saw a pencilling of light shine under her door. 1948C. L. B. Hubbard Dogs in Brit. xx. 309 Colour [of the Manchester terrier] is jet black, with rich mahogany tan markings..(‘pencillings’ on the toes to be black). 1971F. Hamilton World Encycl. Dogs 659/1 Pencilling: Dark lines divided by strips of tan on feet of Manchester Terrier.
2. concr. A drawing or sketch with a pencil; a jotting or note, made in pencil; fig. a literary sketch or portrait.
1803Lett. Miss Riversdale I. 325 The friction of his pocket had so completely defaced the pencilling. 1830Cunningham Brit. Paint. I. 331 He used to sit and fill his copybook with pencillings of flowers. 1835N. P. Willis (title) Pencillings by the way. 1845Geo. Eliot Lett. (1954) I. 187 Thank you for the pencillings... I see that many are obvious and important emendations. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. iv. 124 Two little pencillings from Canterbury south porch and central tower. 1886Symonds Renaiss. It. (1898) VII. viii. 24 Ariosto's bright and many-coloured pencillings, were..distinguished by..firmness of drawing. 1923J. M. Murry (title) Pencillings: little essays on literature.
3. (See quot.)
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1659/1 To draw a line of white paint along a mortar-joint in a brick wall, to render the joint more conspicuous and contrast with the colour of the bricks. This is termed penciling.
▪ II. ˈpencilling, ppl. a.
[f. pencil v. + -ing2.]
That pencils, or uses a pencil.
1887Daily Tel. 12 Mar. 5/2 A registration fee..is extracted from every member of the pencilling fraternity [= bookmakers]. |